text: There is no safe or effective happiness treatment. Short term happy pills (e.g. cocaine, which causes elevation in levels of dopamine right in the areas that cause you to feel happy) don't work for long.    > If we could, every other human activity would be pointless, as we only do such things to be happy( i.e. get dopamine rushing through our bodies), right?      I think that's partly right. Rats that learn to electrically stimulate their own mesolimbic dopamine pathway get such a great high that given the choice between food or sex and another hit of stimulation, they can willingly starve themselves to death for another hit. Some heroin users have said that heroin fills a void that makes them feel fulfilled and all the yearning that they ever had for love, accomplishment, etc. is all addressed wonderfully and nothing else is needed anymore (during the high). Soon thereafter, of course, more heroin is needed.